You've also heard that Abaddon authors Mike Wild, Scott Andrews, Jon Green, Al Ewing, Paul Kane and Chuck Wendig have all thrown some lots in, as have Jon, Jenni and I. We had to, or Jenni would have frowned at us.

Now you need to know that a load of our Solaris authors have also been awesome!

What I need you to do right now is go to the auction's Item Index (or to the "categories" box on the right, near the top of the page, to search for things wot interest you) get your bidding on. But, proud as we are of our chaps, I beg you to consider some of these:

Eric Brown is offering up signed copies of three of his latest SF epics: Engineman, Guardians of the Phoenix and his magnum opus, The Kings of Eternity. They're in the cool larger-format UK editions as well, which may be of interest to more discerning US readers.